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From: kozowski@ohsu.edu (Eric Kozowski)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: ATT TCP/IP WIN/3B Help Needed !
Keywords: WIN/3B
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.232406.21723@ohsu.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 91 23:24:06 GMT
References: <538@nysnet.nys.GOV>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Oregon Health Sciences University
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In article <538@nysnet.nys.GOV> fyang@nysnet.nys.GOV (Frank Yang) writes:
>Hi NetExperts :
>
>   I'm a novice on TCP/IP. Forgive me if this is an inappropriate posting.
>   We installed AT&T TCP/IP Win/3b on our ATT 3B2 machine running on StarLan 
>10 NAU. But we have problem when we run netstart to start up the program. The
>error messages look like this :
>
>unknown host nysnet
>can't determine my internet address/usr/etc/inetinit: config line #13: Failed to
> link netstart failed.
>
>   "nysnet" is our machine's official host name.

Add an entry in the /etc/hosts file for nysnet.

-- 
Eric Kozowski         
kozowski@ohsu.edu
Networks & Computing Dept.
Oregon Health Sciences University